Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House schedule, California's Bill Knowland, acting majority leader, presented a stripped-down list of "must" legislation: 1) Reorganization Plan No. 2, to give Agriculture Secretary Benson sweeping powers to reform and reshuffle his vast department; 2) reciprocal-trade extension; 3) the continental-shelf bill to give the Federal Government control of offshore oil beyond state boundaries; 4) the Watkins bill to grant emergency visas to 240,000 Iron Curtain refugees, other aliens. Also on the agenda: routine appropriations, extension of the excess profits tax. Apparently overboard for this session: 1) Hawaiian statehood; 2) revision of Taft-Hartley...
...Archbishop laid in her hands the Sovereign's Sword-to "do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God . . . restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order." The Queen took the Sword, advanced with it to the altar and offered it to God. Turning, she stole a glance at the royal gallery, where her 4-year-old son Prince Charles, in a white silk suit, watched enraptured. She paused and returned to the chair...
While the gang was getting rid of Sticht, police were questioning the Panther captured at the gas station. He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school. Not one Panther mentioned the murder of Sticht. When they got out in 1949, Werner drew up a constitution for the gang: "Security for all members, adequate living standards, 1,500,000 Deutsche Mark ($357,143) to be amassed by all possible means, legal or illegal. . . treason to Panther Bande punishable by death." The document was signed in blood. Werner lost no time...
Section Three of the McCarran Law defines "Communist front" organizations so loosely as to include any group that advocates an idea disapproved of by the government. It is difficult to think of any proposal for social reform that has not received the Red label. The McCarran Law spells out the dangerous equation: Change=Communism=Russia. The same equation is apparent in the questions and behavior of Senator Jenner, Congressman Velde, and Senator McCarthy, who joined with Senator McCarran to make his anti-democratic and un-American act into...
...Rene's escapades form the main plot. They take her on a quick whirl through reform school, a marathon party with some furloughing G.I.s, a brush with genteel do-gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers...